Fredrik Sjöstrand

Dr Fredrik Sjöstrand is an Associate Professor at Uppsala University. Fredrik lectures on subjects related to organisation theory, network organisations, corporate responsibility, sustainability, marketing and scientific methods. Fredrik is Programme Director of the Master’s programme in Sustainable Management and has had several positions at Gotland University. His research interests include network organisations, virtual organisations, sustainable visits, and the hospitality industry.

Dr Fredrik Sjöstrand is an Associate Professor at Uppsala University. Fredrik lectures on subjects related to organisation theory, network organisations, social networks, management behaviour and leadership, corporate responsibility, sustainability, marketing and scientific methods. Fredrik is Programme Director of the Master’s programme in Sustainable Management and has had several positions at Gotland University. He has supervised and examined many Bachelor’s and Master’s students. His research interests include network organisations, virtual organisations, social networks and information technology, sustainable visits, and the hospitality industry.

Fredrik has been a recurrent guest teacher at the University of Western Cape in South Africa and also at Stockholm University. After his doctoral research at Stockholm University, which explored the coordination mechanisms in network organisations, he went on to become the Head of the Department of Business Administration and Economics at Gotland University (2005-2009).

He has been involved in research projects in the manufacturing industry, SME innovation, and entrepreneurship and development. Fredrik has been engaged in the VITS programme at Linköping University. This programme conducts research in several fields, including the use of IT and its impact on business processes and IT. He has been participating in a multi-disciplinary research project investigating the development of networks in the wind power industry and sustainable visits. Before Fredrik´s business studies, he studied chemical engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology and worked in a research and development laboratory at Cementa. Fredrik is originally from the Swedish island of Gotland.